Blog Notes (Pinned)

Blogging 106 Comments

After many years of warnings, requests and reminders, the persistence of a few readers to troll one another ad nauseam has forced my hand.

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106 Replies to “Blog Notes (Pinned)”

  3. I apologize to everyone for the inconvenience, but it was this or shutting comments down altogether.

    3. Cuts down on your workload, and probably moderates your blood pressure, too. 😉

    5. Thank you.

      I will not be missing the UNthing and BattyMatt.

      I assume this is costing you, so I will see what the dentist costs me later this month, and will send in a little donation. But I don’t know what is better: Paypal or Chargex VISA.

    6. Hi Kate
      Not that I comment much these days, the cordiality, community and informed comments of yesteryear do seem to have been lacking the last few years and whilst we all age it seems not to be the engagement of those early years. These days I rarely read the comments.
      Anyway hope this goes someway to redressing that and making your life easier. As others have said its not that big a deal really.
      Stay well.

  6. Good. Hopefully less pee on the carpets now from the entitled “visitors”.

    1. If this doesn’t work, I’m going to nuke every comment they’ve ever posted here. I have the technology (and I have used it in the past).

      1. And https costs you a lot each year, another reason for me to feel guilty until you get some money out of us to cover these additional costs.

  12. As one of the guest contributors, I’ve had to login for several years now. It’s no big deal. After several days, it’ll ask you to login again. Super simple, especially if your browser saves your credentials.

    The anonymity that Kate requires on SDA is soooo much less than on other sites, so hopefully no legitimate commenters will be turned off.

  13. Google and countless Indian hackers already know everything I do. One more can’t hurt.

  14. Thanks Kate,
    Lots of time wasted picking thru the rocks left here some days to mine the gold.
    Well done!!!

  18. Started out penciling in IBM punch cards for batch processing on a mainframe. Now I struggle to enter a sufficiently strong password on a laptop with almost as much horsepower.

    1. I had the luxury of a teletype printer on a DEC mainframe when I started.

      Still took me half an hour to do the registration. WordPress delenda est!

    2. Learn to code.
      In my first machine shop job (~1979) we had an old lathe that was programmed with huge cards that had cutouts which controlled the movement of cutting tools. The cards were affixed to a drum in order to effect the program. My night foreman explained how one of his first jobs at the plant had been learning to layout and cut out the voids that amounted to the pre-CNC programming of that beast. Ah, the memories!

  22. Wonderful idea.
    I don’t comment often but have reading for about 20 years and there’s been way too much “I know you are but what am I” childishness of late.

  24. A few posters are going to be bitterly disappointed that I can log in.

    2. I don’t mind arguing with you. You’re slightly more civilized than UnHuman.

      2. I didn’t mean arguing as in personal taunts. I meant arguing in the positive sense of debating specific topics by reasoned “arguments”. Poor choice of words on my part. And yes, I have allowed myself to get dragged into the personal garbage far too much. I’m done with that.

    3. Not too many, I think. I don’t tend to agree with your viewpoint, but you bring it in a reasoned matter, making it easy to consider.

    1. Excellent.

      I’m on several sites where this is the format, and I also don’t have any issues with it.

  34. Thanks all. The login process is very straightforward, and I hope it all works out.

  39. Thanks very much for all you do Kate. Lively debate is always a good thing. Debate backed up by good facts and reasonable arguments. Trolling and ad hominem attacks…not so much.

  48. Thank you Kate. I vented this weekend about the very problem you are trying to solve. I have been coming to your delightful site for many years. I largely stopped commenting a couple of years ago. I now hope to return to taking part in the discussions.

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